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        Ramesh Nukathoti                 

                                                                                                                                    

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

·         More than 17 years of career reflecting IT experience as Lead IT Applications & Infrastructure Program, Portfolio & Project Manager | IT Project Lead | IT Business Applications Analyst | IT Techno-Functional Consultant in various global business applications across different platforms in multiple server environments which includes 14 years of ERP & Client-Server Technologies.

·         15+ years of knowledge and development experience using the full software development project lifecycle (analysis, design, code and implement) in multiple development projects.

·         Managed teams of 15-20 people having Business Analysts, DBAs, developers, and web service administrators, test engineers, Network Engineers and UI developers on various IT projects.

·         Extensive Experience in working with corporate top Business Executive Management in reporting and Provide support to IT Director, CSO, CFO, CIO and CMO for all IT related activities.

·         Support initiatives within functions to work with various Business Departments across the board in improving efficiency and smooth flow of the IT functioning Led and Managed Oracle EBS R12 projects from inception through completion. IT-Strategy Redundancy planning / Vendor Management.

·         Experience Working with Oracle & Linux DBA’s regarding maintenance of Db. and Application servers.

·         Work with IT Network Engineers, Application Development Teams, third party consultants & vendors in improving the efficiency of the IT Infrastructure and business application process environment.

·         Contributed to the development of IT controls and business processes with the implementation of a Japanese SOX program. 

·         Control owner for 21 key General Information Technology Controls.  Worked with internal and external auditors to complete annual interim audits, final audits, and remediation.

·         IT Audit Criticality- Preparation for IT- JSOX audit (Maintain all protocol and management of change requirements in preparation for interim and Annual IT Audit).

·         IT Project Management (Oracle EBS, BI, Help Desk, Data Center, Network Infrastructure Projects)

·         Managed Technical & functional teams (Applications & Network), Multiple Data Center Management, Developing IT Budgets, IT Coordination with Business Departments & Strategic Planning teams.

·         Have successfully managed multiple key projects in Oracle EBS, Linux / MS Windows Server, BI (MS SQL Server, OBIEE, Noetix Views, Tableau etc.) environment, Team-focused, solutions-driven IT techno-functional Manager with proven success in overseeing multiple, simultaneous Applications, Network Infrastructure projects.

·         Have good hands on experience in Project Management including IT budgeting, client requirements gathering, development, customization, Implementation, testing, Production support, documentation of Oracle EBS Financial / Manufacturing Applications 10.7/11.5.4, 11.5.7, 11.5.9, 11.5.10/ R12.1.3, MS-SharePoint, MS SQL Server 2008/2012, MS Windows AD, VMware, Data Centers (Cloud based).

·         Extensive experience in Oracle EBS Applications 11.5.9/11.5.10/R12, SQL, PL/SQL, Oracle Forms 6i/9i, Reports 6i/9i/10g Discoverer, Oracle 8i, 9i, 10g,12C.  BI tools like Datastage and RDBMS like DB2, Oracle 11g/12C and reporting tools like Noetix Views & Reports, Tableau Reports.

·         Experienced in Data analysis, Data modeling, Data migration and a strong understanding of the principles of Data Warehouse using Fact Tables, Dimension Tables.

·         Expertise in System Requirement Study, System Analysis, Technical Design & Development, Test Strategy preparation, Unit Testing, System Integration testing and documentation standards.

 

CORE COMPETENCIES 

Ø  Program / Portfolio/ Project Management, Agile Scrum Master Analysis & Business Consulting.

Ø  Functional & Technical Specs & Designs, QA & Regression Testing.

Ø  Defect Tracking and Reporting.

Ø  SDLC Development.

LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENT

Ø  Facilitate weekly program /project status and Review meetings with Business Executive leadership and Stakeholders.

Ø  Productivity improvement, Issue & Risk Mgmt.

Ø  Client Relationship Management. 

Ø  Business Process & Workflow Design.

Ø  Internal & Offshore Team Coordination.

Ø  Training, Coaching & Mentoring. 

Ø  Offshore development Management. 

Ø  Internal & Offshore Team Coordination.

Ø  Client /Vendor project management.

 

CERTIFICATIONS                                          

·         ICP-PPM (ICAgile Certified Professional - Program and Portfolio Management), 2017

·         Scrum Master Certified (SMC), SCRUM Study, October 2016

·         PMP Certification in process (Target certification date–  Early 2018)

·         Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)

·         Microsoft Certified Professional + Internet (MCPI)

·         R4 Principal Certified Lotus Notes Professional (PCLP)

EDUCATION

·         Master of Science Degree, 1997, Osmania University, India.

·         Postgraduate Diploma in Computer Applications, 1997, ICSS, India.

·         Bachelor of Science Degree, 1995, Osmania University, India.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Operating Systems    : UNIX / Linux, Windows-NT /2000/2003/2008 R2, Mainframe, Windows 7.

Oracle ERP                   : Oracle Financial / Manufacturing Applications R12, R11i, R10.7 (General Ledger

                                         (GL), Accounts Payables (AP), Accounts Receivables, (AR), Inventory (INV), Bill

                                         Of Materials (BOM), Order Management (OM), Purchasing (PO), Supply Chain

                                         Management (SCM), Asset Management (FA), Advance Pricing, Costing, HRMS,

                                         CRM (Service Requests, Customers).

Oracle Tools                : Developer 2000/6i/9i (Forms4.5/5.0/6/6i/9i and Reports2.5/6/6i),SQL* LOADER,

                                         PL/SQL Developer, SQL Developer and TOAD.

Web technologies      : ADF Framework, WebSphere Application Server Admin., IBM HTTP Server Admin.,

            HTML, VB-Script, JavaScript, .NET, XML, Developer.

Business Intelligence: Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, 2012 (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS), Noetix Views & Web

            Query Server Platform, Tableau 9.3, OBIEE., OBIEE, ParaAccel DB, Tableau

PM Methodologies &

Tools                             : SDLC, Waterfall, Agile(Scrum), MS-Project, MS-Office, Visio, Mind Map, Client    

                                    Specific Change Control Management tools (Tivoli, Kintana, ServiceNow, Visual

                                    Source Safe etc.) 

Cloud Technologies   :  Oracle, Microsoft, VM ware, Cisco, Amazon (AWS)

Tax Software               :  Vertex Tax R5 Application (SR15) Administration and Support, Oracle EBS.

Tax Languages            :  SQL, TSQL, PL/SQL, Shell Scripts, VBScript, HTML, XML, ASP, JAVA and JCAL.                    

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Client: IAC Applications, Yonkers, New York.                                                                          Aug ’17 – Till date

Role: Sr.IT Data Engineering & Infrastructure Program/Project Manager

 

The Data Engineering & Reporting team has undertaken a major migration Project initiative working along with IAC infrastructure group to bring IAC Applications on-premise databases to Amazon Cloud (AWS) because of Data centers at Las Vegas and DuPont lease/contract expiration early 2018. This includes Data Warehouse, CMRS database, Tableau Server and a lot of backend processing that happens as part of messaging, ETL and LTV calculations. The IT directive was to move all the application and Infrastructure services to a secured, better and cost-effective options. After a thorough POC was performed, Amazon (AWS) proved to be the most cost-effective, efficient and Scalable environment to accomplish this project initiative. Snowflake has been chosen as the new Data Warehouse solution because of its ability to spin fully manageable compute cluster with ease.

 

Key Responsibilities:

 

• Lead and Drive projects as Lead PM from Initiation to Closure of the assigned projects (DW Cloud Migration Project & Apalon Revenue Recognition Automation Project)
• Create high Level Scope and Detailed Project Plans.
• Coordinate and work with Subject Matter Experts (SME) to document existing process, research best practices, resolve issues and mitigate risks in the spirit of continuous improvement.
• Work with CTO, SVP & Directors of IT DER group and Infrastructure group along with Business key stakeholders in migrating the on premise DW of 20-30 TB to Amazon Cloud (AWS).
• Work with DER & Infrastructure teams (DevOps, Security, Network, IT Services) , Executive Leadership for proper planning, design and architect existing and future Hardware, application (AWS, EC2, S3,Scribe, Kinesis, RDS, Aurora, Chef ( Cookbooks),Cloud Watch,Cloud trail, Snowflake, ParAccel DB, Python / Perl Scripts, Direct Connect) and Infrastructure requirements.

·         Facilitate weekly program /project status and Review meetings with Business Executive leadership and Stakeholders.

• Manage Project team Size of 15-20 people.
• Led the project as the lead PM managing the Scope, planning, execution, Monitoring & Controlling, Stakeholder Management and Closure.
• Led multiple projects onsite for IT Data Engineering and reporting group working with Infra and Accounting Groups.
• Successfully initiated and redefined the scope, Project plan creation, executed, monitored and implemented the project within Accounting, Oracle Corporate group , Apalon product team ( iTunes , google, Samsung ,Facebook, Amazon paid / free app subscriptions) and DW development team. Defined detailed Project Scope & Plan in implementing a new SKU structure for Mobile apps and in generating a revenue and reporting feeds to Oracle EBS system & accounting group for revenue recognition automatically. Accomplished this over a yearlong pending project initiative within three months.

·         Analyze and define client’s business strategy and determine system architecture requirements to achieve business goals. Gather detailed business requirements and use cases, and translate technical specifications into product requirements.

• Formulate strategic plans for component development to sustain future project objectives.
• Create team strategies and establish project scopes of work; communicate project deliverable timeframes and benchmarks to clients.
• Worked with IAC controller, Oracle functional and Accounting group in defining the layout for revenue recognition rules for revenue automation process in Oracle EBS financial System.
• Worked with DW and Infra teams including Security, DevOps, Network & IT services in successful completion of POC involving Redshift, Snowflake, Google Big query in finalizing the right Cloud DW platform for Amazon (AWS).
• Managing the scheduled sprint daily DW migration development and DevOps activities. Involved with Project team with Snowflake training onsite by Snowflake Product Support & Cloud contract.
• Involved on the support calls with Amazon Product support for AWS cloud products / services, Q&A for Network integration services along with Infra team.
• Managed & Monitored Federated (Linked to AD) Snowflake access, Multi factor authorization (Okta) & Amazon IAM (policies /roles) integration. IPSEC / Direct connect (VPC Subnets) setup for Amazon Cloud.
• Worked with network, security and DevOps teams in setting up DEV / PROD environments by spinning up required EC2 instances, IAM, Aurora (Postgres), chef client & Server, kinesis, RDS in AWS cloud. Security Policy for secured AWS VPC for Development and Production Environments.
• Planned and created Jira Agile and Kanban dashboards in developing, monitoring and tracking scheduled sprint epics, tasks, sub tasks, issues, risks, resources, big picture (Gantt) for overall Project tracking & Monitoring purposes.
• Organized and facilitated Agile and Scrum meetings, which included Sprint Planning, Daily Standups, Sprint Check-In, and Sprint Review & Retrospective.

·         Worked with Internal audit team to comply with IT SOX audit policies, controls and required project specific documentation.

 

Environment: Amazon AWS, IAM, EC2, S3, Scribe, Kinesis, RDS, Aurora, Postgres, DynamoDB, Tableau Server ( BI),  Chef ( Cookbooks),Runbook, Cloud Watch,Cloud trail, SNS, Hyperic / New Relic Monitoring , Snowflake, ParAccel DB, Python / Perl Scripts, Direct Connect

 

Client: Zebra Technologies, Lincolnshire (Greater Chicago Area, IL).                               Nov ’16 – July 2017

Role: Sr.IT Applications & Infrastructure Program/Project Manager

 

Project Description: Zebra Technologies Corporation (Acquired Motorola Solutions) is a $3.5B Global Manufacturing company. Currently Working in the role of a Lead IT Applications and Infrastructure PM to Manage Zebra   IT Infrastructure Hardware & Application Phase 1 & 2 Merlin Projects (Oracle EBS Db upgrade, OID 11g upgrade, SSH upgrades& Siebel Language Pack Installs, ERP App Server OS Migration & Upgrade (App Tier), SAN Migration & Upgrade etc. Oracle EBS Global Application Problem Definition & Pperformance issues resolution undertaken as a part of Zebra IT Trilogy Exit Release Global Program Initiatives ($55M) to merge into one Global Standard Platform by 2017.

 

Key Responsibilities:

·         Lead and Drive projects as PM from Initiation to Closure of the assigned projects.

·         Create high Level Scope and Detailed Project Plans.

·         Project Budget allocation, Resource and Task Scheduling.

·         Interact and closely work with Client PMO to comply with BTO established documentation standards.

·         Coordinate and work with Subject Matter Experts (SME) to document existing process, research best practices, resolve issues and mitigate risks in the spirit of continuous improvement.

·         Work with Applistrucutre & Infrastructure teams, Application teams, PMO, Executive Leadership for proper planning, design and architect existing and future Hardware, application (ERP, OID, SQL, Windows, SAN, DR Etc.) and Infrastructure requirements.

·         Manage Project team Size of 20-25 people.

·         Facilitate weekly Application& Infrastructure (project) status and Review meetings with Business Executive leadership and Stakeholders.

·         Identify, analyze and prepare risk mitigation tactics & Plan

·         Identify and manage anticipated resistance Acts as the Project Manager (PM) for assigned projects.

·         Document Risks, issues, and decisions in the RAID / issue logs and escalate it to the Leadership when necessary for prompt decision making.

·          Promote collaboration and teamwork between the Data Warehouse team and the BI team for increased productivity.

·         Work with Deployment Manager to properly align the project Schedule activities based on the Applications / Server Instance availability and come up with cutover plans with detailed task activities for proper deployment in production environments.

·         Responsible for managing priorities and executing reporting deliverables based on agreed upon project timelines

·         Work with Regression, Validation and Performance testing teams to validate the Infrastructure and Application builds in Non – Prod environments before Final move to Production.

·         Facilitate Pre-tollgate and Tollgate meetings for each project phase to get approvals and signoffs from Business owners, stake holders and Leadership.

·         Work with IT Change Management team for timely approvals of Change requests. 

 

Environment: Oracle EBS R12 Applications (Financials, Manufacturing, SCM), OracleDatabase 10g/11g/12C, OBIEE (DataWarehouse), Informatica (ETL), ODI, OID/ PING (Entry Point), AIT Agile – EVM Agile (PIP DTR), OFM/ FMW (Fusion Middleware), Siebel (CRM), GTM, VCP / Demantra, SFDC (ICS),

Agility, DHL, Sanmina, TOAD, Mainframes, MS-SharePoint Server, MS-SQL Server 2008 (R2)/ 2012, MS Visio, Mind Maps, Citrix Client, DELL VPN, Cisco Anyconnect, SAN, EMC VNXe3300/ Isilon X410 / ExtremeIO Storage Array, Windows Server/ AD, RHEL 4/ 7, 4 Node RACs, Cisco Firewall etc.

 

Client: Tri-Arrows Aluminum Inc., Louisville, KY                                                                         Nov ’12– Oct ’16    

Role: Sr. IT Project Manager (Oracle EBS & IT Business Applications Management)

 

Tri-Arrows Aluminum, Inc. is a premier supplier of Rolled Can Sheet (RCS) to the can manufacturing industry. The company began operations in 1977 as ARCO Aluminum and it was purchased by a consortium of Japanese companies on August 1, 2011, and has a growing international presence in conjunction with its Japanese owners, UACJ Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation, Itochu Corporation and Itochu Metals Corporation.

Responsibilities:

·         Provide support to CSO and CMO for all IT related activities. Support initiatives with in functions to work with Executive Management and other TAA departments in improving the efficiency and smooth flow of the existing Oracle EBS R12 Applications.

·         Work with IT Director in making the IT function move to silent running.

·         Work with Oracle & Linux DBA in developing and maintenance of Oracle Db. & application servers.

·         Led and Managed Oracle EBS R12 projects from inception through completion (AR Custom Auto lockbox & OM Ship Interface programs, Inventory & Pricing modules Management etc.).

·         Led and Implemented Oracle EBS R12 Fixed Assets Corporate Book (US GAAP) involving a team of finance business users and Oracle Financials Functional Consultants.

·         Project lead for Multi Reporting Currency (MRC, JAPANESE) Configuration from Scope to implementation in Oracle EBS R12 suite of applications (Financials/ Manufacturing).

·         Project Lead in implementing a Sales Forecasting and Cash Application BI / Data Warehouse utilizing Oracle Database, SQL Server 2012, Tableau 9.3 Reports, .NET to lean out the Manual entry by successfully automating the business process.

·         Directed the development, deployment and support of an enterprise wide web based reporting system.

·         Manage day to day responsibilities for a team of Business Intelligence Analysts (BI Requirements, Design docs, architecture, development of reports/dashboards)

·         Created templates for various functions such as change request, post implementation review etc. to be used at PMO office. Created high level business requirement documents to get budget and resource sanctioned.

·         Tracked and reported project health (Scope, Budget, and Schedule), variance to all stakeholders and leadership.

·         Responsible for IT SOX and business process documentation and Maintenance.

·         Contributed to the development of IT controls and business processes with the implementation of a Japanese SOX program. Control owner for 21 key GITC.  Worked with internal and external auditors to complete annual interim audits, final audits, and remediation.

·         IT Audit Criticality- Preparation for IT- JSOX audit (Maintain all protocol and management of change requirements in preparation for interim and Annual IT Audit).

·         Performing Annual IT DR test procedures in Windows and Oracle EBS / Linux Server Environments to comply with IT SOX audit procedures and policy.

·         Vendor-Client Relationship & Management (Evaluate, Negotiate and Manage New Quotes, SLAs, contracts, Contract Renewals, IT Sourcing, Software licensing Purchase and Renewals, Cost control, Project deliveries, Procurement documents, PMP and OPA updates).

·         Responsible for Weekly, monthly Vendor meetings (Performance monitoring including project progress, review IT change control tickets, issue logs, invoices, time and expense reports).

Monitor and Mitigate vendor risks, manage Vendor communications across IT and HR departments for proper adherence to company’s HR and IT Policies (New Hire and Exit procedures, IT SOX audit compliance, SOC1 &2, SSAE reports etc.). 

·         IT Technical / Functional support including helpdesk activities, SharePoint Server and Site Maintenance and Administration.

·         Work with network engineers during the planned power outages to shut down the IT infrastructure devices (Windows Servers, VM Ware, Cisco Router, Firewall, Switches, and UPS) and bring all the systems back up after the power outage to avoid a hard crush/ damage.

·         Worked with Network Engineers in implementing a DR strategy for Windows Server, VM Ware, Cisco SAN (NetApp), Data Storage to an offsite DR location (Peak 10).

·         Experience in working with Network engineers in implementing the Secure VPN tunnels across multiple domains comprising windows AD, Cisco Firewall and Mobile operating system environments (Mobile iron Core & Sentry Server Maintenance & Administration experience for IOS and Windows devices (iPhone, IPad, Surface tablets).

·         Cisco Unified Console Management & Administration experience in administering Cisco Desk phone devices and Softphone application install and configuration (Cisco Jabber). Polycom Video Conferencing maintenance and administration experience.

·          Played a key role in leading and rolling out the Cisco IP phone (8945 Series) project successfully working along with the Cisco UC engineers replacing the old Tadiran PBX/ Digital phones (t28).

Environment: Oracle EBS Financials & Manufacturing Applications Release 11i/R12 Oracle Database 10g/11g/12C, Noetix Reports & Views, Tableau BI Reporting software 9.3,TOAD, SQL*Loader, PL/SQL Developer Mainframes, MS-SharePoint Server, MS-SQL Server 2008 (R2)/ 201, MS Visio, Mind Maps, MS Forefront, Citrix Client, DELL VPN, Cisco Anyconnect, CUCM &CUCA Console.

 

Client: National Processing Company (NPC), Louisville, KY                                                Nov ‘10 – Nov ‘12    

Role: IT Applications Consultant (IT Project Manager)

Responsibilities:

·         To manage the scope, estimates, timeline and delivery model from technical standpoint.

·         Organizing and facilitating the technical meetings with the business, development and testing teams.

·         Responsible and accountable for all the technical deliverables from the team on time with an excellent quality.

·         Partnering with business teams and data quality teams for completing all the necessary UAT

·         Reviewing the code, testing results to make sure they comply with the standards and all the entry gate and exit gate requisites are satisfied.

·         Handling all the Issues and Risks and coming up with the corresponding mitigation plan

·         Involved in Business requirements gathering, design, coding and implementation of new front ends for Merchant Credit Card processing.

·         Used a combination of Agile and Waterfall methodologies for various projects in matrix environment.

·         Worked in Development, Testing, Implementation and Documentation of Financial Application Customization for INV, OM, PO, AP, AR, GL Modules.

·         Interface development involving R12 Financial Modules AP, AR, GL- AP Invoices, and Supplier Conversion.

·         Provided CRM application Support as an Administrator in creating new service requests, new task templates, task types. Resolution of CRM Service request issues, Customer (Merchant Data issues) interfaced to client specific front ends   like UST, NPCrm.

·         Vertex Tax Application R5 Administration.

·         Manage Vendor Performance and Client Expectations.

·         Recognize, monitor and manage vendor risk to the Organization (IT Specific).

·         PMP, Project and OPA documentation.

·         Worked alongside with HR department and IT operations (VP, CIO) on strategic sourcing (IT out sourcing, Merchant Processing IT products and services, vendor evaluation and manage contracts).

·         Defined New Tax categories, Tax drivers in Vertex Central R5 Application and mapped it to new item categories in Oracle EBS Inventory module (11.5.10, R12)

·         Involved in testing Deployment project in automation of orders interfaced from different client frontends and oracle order management. Developed Customized PL/SQL Packages, Procedures to accommodate the Changes to the Financial Business Application as per client   requirements.

·         Extensive Experience as a Project led Analyst in a Project titled ‘Amex One Point Synergy’ One which involved developing an Interface to load the new Amex card types, gift card types merchant /customer data and interface it to Oracle Application System using the client specific custom interface ‘New Merchant Interface.

·         Involved in development of customization of Concur Employee expense invoices load process In Accounts Payables (R12). Investigate and Provide Technical Support for Production issues. (BOL, pick slip closing, Invoice closings etc.), Front end Forms & Reports user problems.

·         Creating technical & Functional documents reflecting user specific requirements in maintenance of Oracle R12 Financial Applications.  

Environment: Oracle Financials Applications Release 11i (11.5.9)/ R12 (INV, OM, PO, AP, AR, GL, CRM and AOL), Oracle 8i/9i, Oracle Forms & Reports 6i, TOAD, SQL*Loader, PL/SQL Developer, .NET, UNIX/Linux, Mainframes, Vertex Tax Application Version R5.    

 

Client:  Atlanta Water Works